The warning was in effect for Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy and St. Maarten.
A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Puerto Rico, the United States and the British Virgin Islands.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the disturbance was expected to become a tropical depression later Monday, then a tropical storm as it approaches the northeastern Caribbean Sea. It is then expected to become a hurricane early Thursday as it heads north toward Bermuda.
The disturbance, Ernesto, is expected to become the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Meteorologists warned that the system is expected to lead to flooding and landslides.
French authorities in the Caribbean said the disturbances were expected to hit Guadeloupe on Monday and pass near Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.
The National Hurricane Center said the disturbance was expected to approach Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands Tuesday evening.
The disturbance is located about 845 kilometers east-southeast of Antigua. Maximum sustained winds are 45 km/h (28 mph) and it is moving west at 43 km/h (27 mph).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year due to record ocean temperatures. It predicts 17 to 25 named storms, with four to seven major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher.
